The most exciting part of my breakfast at Cafe Bonaparte was seeing George Stephanopoulos walk by on the sidewalk outside.

Hot chocolate was better than average though my croissant was largely… (via Scotto B. on Yelp)

Got looked over by the doc, following yesterday’s health issue – Nothing so severe as strep or a heart attack, but a really bad allergy fit. Swollen throat, trouble breathing, tightness in the chest…I was told that my heart is more than fine… it’s strong as can be.

Blood pressure – 121 / 71, pulse 74

Got a ‘scrip for zyrtec for the allergies, and a topical for the ongoing eczema on my neck. Thank goodness for insurance!

Thank you to everyone who gave well-wishes… they were greatly appreciated!

Bad news – my camera died.. the motor that spits out and retrieves the lens is out of whack, and I fear it’s probably kaput. I’ll get another eventually, but I fear that any photos will be taken with the cell phone for the immediate future – kills the resolution and spontaneity of image-taking.

Tonight we celebrated Larry’s b’day by gifting him with, and then watching Wild Hogs. It was a lot better than I’d expected, though it petered out with typical Deux Ex Machina at the end. He also got the new Vine gill 4-cd set, and banana puddin’, as is his fondness. Tina and Chris stuck around through our tasty veggie-dogs/veggie chili cookout – I was still feeling pretty woozy throughout, but I think I’m getting better now.

1 year ago – hacking xp, gaming due to love of school supplies, airplay map, weird Maryland,

2 years ago – New Orleans Lisas, moon base mars, flash earth, ed wood directs, devo,blue beetle & lithium, bush 5 years and no “nos”, spidey-enema,SCOAI, word colors

3 years ago – missed oneeyed, bro scams mom, no donkey basketball, t-mobile good gesture, scale model of city, lenny kravitz warning, cemetery stroll urge, Bermuda Triangle, Saturn’s 33 moons, flash game tutorial

4 years ago – Newt vs measuring cup, astronaut jones, free router stuff

5 years ago – Saturday mornings, heroclix, band names, toad turmoil, recorder, fun gab

6 years ago – page pondering

7 years ago – bakery-dog, factoids-lieoids (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

Take everything good about old fashioned tattooing, mix it with a dash of history, add a very liberal pinch of fantastic outsider art, a place it all in a quaint setting on a historic street, in a… (via Scotto B. on Yelp)

Not much to report today, dear journal… green line broke down on the way to work, but fortunately, I wasn’t late, due to my habit of being one ahead (learned via broward county – same rule applies – better early than late!) Payday today! just in time considering some untimely bills snuck up on us.

Pomonkey and Ripley are at their new foster parents place today – BHK and I are sad to see ‘em go, but I think our allergies really started to get kicking… pretty timely send off for ’em.

BHK made a spectacular supper of stuffed shells, garlic bread, and salad for us – the in-laws went out for their 32nd (I think) wedding anniversary, so she and I had a nice private night at home to watch cheesy movie The Covenant. Not bad in a goofy flick sort of way. Sort of a cheap hybrid of the Matrix meets the Craft.

1 year ago – raccoons, giant ants, moldy bread and freemasons make me smile, movies, geocaching, lj on venture brothers, gentle morning off, quotes meme

2 years ago – greasemap, foreign ducktales, apricot scarves… Tony Randall and vanity, Jean Charles de Menezes, bckev’s keeno covers, kayla/susie drama, hugs, top 20 pics, elvis the robo-cat, newton nibble pic, tubby newt pic

3 years ago – AvP movie. bus schedules switch, walkabout pics, Punta Gorda – Yikes

4 years ago – last skeletor and gang, insect macro photos, apartments made from text,hello kitty warhammer, human/rabbit chimera, scotto is a fuzzy monkey,frankie knocks, wondering about crusaders planting vinyards, drunkensailor quiz, complete sherlock holmes, some detective work, pursecontents, fun with google calc

5 years ago – both machines upgraded and cleaned up, fun linkies, MRE talks about writing his junk, signage systems

6 years ago – eye dialect, latitudinarian, weird dream poll, set up alternates to LJ, Newt comes to work, cool news, freaky dream

7 years ago – loony, first hints suzy using, foodies (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

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I’m ok, first time in ER since the honeymoon. Had chest and throat issues. Advised a stay for 24-48 hours.

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BHK is taking Pomonkey and Ripley off to their new foster home tomorrow. I’ll miss ‘em, though I’ve gotten used to the idea that they’re just visiting, not permanent family members. It’s hard not to get emotionally attached to little baby animals.

Newton and Pye both weigh a ton next to those little critters… I’d say Pye weighs four to five times as much, at least. No fat, either, all kitty muscles.

Marty put me onto a nifty tool alternate to Filezilla called WinSCP (WinSCP is a SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.)

TM let it be known that she’s dating a new guy – I’m guessing that it’s been a few weeks now? I’m trying to mentally do the math, but I’m not sure I can think of how fast she got back on the horse after the breakup with DR. I hope she finds what she’s looking for with the new fellow.

Tech Issues recently solved:

http://wiki.avectra.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Correspondence template specifics:
http://wiki.avectra.com/index.php?title=Correspondence_Template
Resize Options:
http://wiki.avectra.com/index.php?title=Internet_Explorer_Settings

How to Open Excel Files in Excel (rather than browser)

These instructions do NOT work in Vista but should work in XP but must be done on each client computer.

1. Go to Windows Explorer.

2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click on the File Types tab.

3. From the Registered file types list box, select the XLS extension, and then click Advanced.

4. In the Edit File Type dialog box, set the Confirm open after download to selected.

5. Make sure the Browse in same window option is not selected, and then click OK.

1,700 vintage game manuals as watermark-free PDFs –

This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by an anonymous army of dedicated people, and going back up to 30 years.

1 year ago

– vacation day, graffiti pics, skateboarders, fountain geocache, sugar sand park,

2 years ago – goth girl, walken ’08, dane cook re: superman shirts, silly tiger, scotto is, strikeout meme, newt pic at my old apt,

3 years ago – palm doodle, storm disastrous, necco wafers, hurricane journal-guy

4 years ago – wwcalc, Mexican casserole, newt sniffing, sewer travels, blackouts

5 years ago – cool comics, broken links, memories from 1981, hump-day

6 years ago – good feelings, abusive employee/employer relations, wonder tomato condiment poll, evil news, taught chmod

7 years ago – sleep study follow-up, peace (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

We’re at MOCA’s Night Vision event and after going into moderate credit card debt for the watermelon (soju) martini ($8 plus tip), we headed downstairs to Patinette for a quick nosh.

My ham and… (via Scotto B. on Yelp)

Soup in a tiny teapot! *squee*

That’s my inner Asian girl going *squee* because my outer one is a little too cool to actually squee. Still, I think I may have let out a small gasp of pleasure as I… (via Scotto B. on Yelp)

My former coworker used to live in this building and the valet here lost the keys to my car. Needless to say, I was very reluctant to use valet when I came for a private Halloween party last year… (via Scotto B. on Yelp)

So… Amazon does groceries, now? Nice idea, especially if they don’t charge shipping on bills more than $25. That’s good to know, in the event of some rare items going missing… I wonder if there’s a way to order stuff that’s very local?

I totally agree with MightyGodKing – If more history books were like Warren Ellis’ and Raulo Caceres’ Crêcy, this would not be a problem. At all.
(Warning, language.. as if I have to tell you, dear journal.)

Yesterday was a beautiful day, even though we spent the majority of it indoors. I think the weather is just about perfect for kayaking now… not too hot, but nice, clear and sunny. 88 degrees is doable – 112… not so much.

BHK and TM pulled potatoes today!

From our garden – that’s a big ol’ spud!

After such a long, hot week, that was some beautiful weekend, wasn’t it? And apparently, the beauty of the weekend is spilling out on to Monday morning: Karl Rove, President Bush’s controversial deputy chief of staff and senior political adviser, will resign at the end of August. After he packs up his Palisades home and heads back to the Texas Hill Country, Rove will reportedly leave politics and plans to write a book about the Bush years – do you still get to claim executive privilege when your job involves working in your slippers?

1 year ago – pics from britta’s birthday and walkabout, ocean movies

2 years ago – strawberry shortcake, silas stingy, bus ride video, video watching, about me meme, errors at work

3 years ago – np tech fizzed out, disney rides, bro gets 2 years probation, CoH, hurricane Charley, RvsB-internet, Horny Toad

4 years ago – Gelatinous Cube, Chimera / Mosaics, Schwarzenegger, I work with fools blog, David Carlson, wonder woman, cockroaches/dominoes, AAA vs speed traps, director, google calc, teen titans theme cracked

5 years ago – cheaters, fartlek, Gamera, Nation of Victims, Nimoy sings about Bilbo

6 years ago – random journal reading, suasion, hobson, pancake bunny, misc news, super powers/poll

7 years ago – went for sleep study

(via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

Sunday morning started with more reading, and a repeat of BHK napping a little bit while I played Pyramids and Dominoes with EM. Once we were all cleaned up and ready, we toddled off to Chris and Larry’s for a tasty breakfast of Belgian waffles w/ ice cream and fresh made strawberry syrup – Em ate 6 or 7 pieces of bacon, and a whole waffle! That little critter can *eat*!

Post breakfast gluttony, (see photos), we headed down to the Bay to take a moment to search for fossils – – Emily got a lovely little bag of shark’s teeth and shells to take back with her.

At about 1, it was time to head out for our rendezvous with Misti at the Arby’s – a reasonable halfway point between our homes (approximately an hour drive for each). during the drive, we saw quite a bit of Amish country, down to several Horse-drawn carriages – apparently you can pass them on a double-lined highway, unlike normal cars. A pretty broad assortment of them were out and about, covered and uncovered, families and older couples.

After lunch and switching Em’s car seat to Misti’s truck, we encountered two stray cats lurking around the parking lot.

After a little deliberation, we decided to take them someplace safer, either a no-kill shelter, home with us, or at least to a region without as much high-speed car traffic nearby. They’re Brother and sister, I think, and about four months old.

We did have to name ‘em, rather than just boy or girl –

Ripley – White and tan little guy (Named for a place that has a bit of meaning for us – see also ) The little lover… all about snuggles and purrs.

Pomonkey – Longhair Tabby female, looks like a “what if Pye and Newt had a daughter” Hair length and ear-wispies of pye, with Newt’s markings. (Name based on a city’s name I learned a while back and haven’t stopped enjoying yet) Super curious, purrs easily, too.

After taking them to the vet to be tested for Feline Leukemia (and anything else that might hurt Pye and/or Newt), they came home with us to stay in the guest bathroom. We located a good foster home for them both, and I don’t think either one will have any trouble being adopted.

While we’d love to keep them, we just don’t have the ability to do so in a good way. I really wish that we could… makes me want to own a barn a mile away from anywhere, just so we can have a homestead with a bunch running around.

Since we waited at the vets for about 5 hours (emergency room for animals – triage… the kitties were pretty dang healthy except for ear mites, so other, more urgent cases had priority.)

We watched the Meteor shower for about 3 minutes until we both got super sleepy, and had to head to bed. Caught a few shooting stars, though!

1 year ago – giraffe graffiti, giganta, danny talks to doug, I talk to GP, green wifi, Bob Ross feeds a Squirrel, starshine

2 years ago – Lesbian movie scenes, student aid, the goon & pie, lisas go to TX, Harry Potter, everything can change, wirehog

3 years ago – Bro’s sentencing, EN makes a good impression (other guy fizzed out), Daredevil question, Koko wants a dentist, Tropical Storm

4 years ago – muttonhead, rain, flash, dan at school, voodoo 4, lychee yum, walking stick self defense, ati multi monitor life, noisy neighbors

5 years ago – spiders on drugs, Uzumaki, me and newt’s custom HC dials, goodies for Kev’s sis, bear teeth, a moment of Zen

6 years ago – utility kilt, uncle bill, intrepid

7 years ago – first online radio(broken), food out with Danny, made the “decaf espresso=kissing your sister” joke, Hollow man (via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)